Oracle WebLogic Server

Score7 out of 10

118 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Oracle WebLogic Server are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Use: Users have highlighted the simplicity and quickness of server management tasks, including manual deploys and connection pool configurations. They find it easy to create and maintain multiple domains for different applications which help contribute to a seamless operational experience.

Performance and Reliability: Reviewers appreciate the robust performance and stability of Oracle WebLogic Application Server for developing and deploying business applications. The high availability, reliability, and integration with other Oracle products further enhance its appeal to users seeking a dependable platform.

Feature Richness: Users value the various features like load balancing, data source entry customization, work managers, JMS support, user management capabilities, messaging options, and clustering management provided by WebLogic. These comprehensive functionalities cater to diverse needs while simplifying operational processes for businesses.

Reviews

43 Reviews

"Oracle WebLogic Server: A Powerhouse for Java EE apps, But Not for Everyone"

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 16, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle WebLogic Server as our application server for a Java Enterprise application. We run up to 24 JVMs tu support our user base, along with JMS servers to handle asynchronous messaging queues. The application itself is to process Fraud and Disputes claims, as well as Account take over/Unauthorized account access.

Pros

Oracle WebLogic Server JMS has been great for us to handle asynchronous message processing.
Oracle WebLogic Server console has also been great as it makes it easier to manage all our application.
The clustering capabilities also makes it easier to manage deployments across nodes and support for load balancing
Lastly, the full Java EE support has been great, we've been able to install library to extend our applications integration capabilities.

Cons

Debugging issues has been difficult sometimes, the documentation is too dense and finding the the root cause for an specific issue takes time.
The Oracle WebLogic Server console UI feels old and gives a sense of lack of innovation even though it provides so much functionality.
I'm not sure if Oracle WebLogic Server supports more modern frameworks, but it feels more like a Java EE specific, maybe there's an opportunity there to appeal to newer application platforms

Likelihood to Recommend

Definitely recommended if you want a stable, full-frature application server for Java EE applications and you are familiar with Oracle family of products. Less recommended if you're new to it as it has a steep learning curve if you need support a big application with a robust architecture. Also wouldn't recommend it for Non-Java applications use cases.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Oracle WebLogic Server stable and flexibile

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 3, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Oracle WebLogic Server can be used in many ways. As a seperate product to develop and publish your web applications on or like in our case it is the "under the hood" engine and platform for one of our key applications that we bought. We still need to update and administer Oracle WebLogic Server ourselves and at that it proved to be a stable product that does it's job well.

Pros

Stability
Good management console
No broken updates

Cons

User friendly interface

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle WebLogic Server is well suited in an organisation that is familiar with Oracle products and product management. Next to that it is a great and stable platform to publish your webapplications on.

It is less suitable if you don't have the time or knowledge to grasp the management interface. It is a bit more complicated as for example Microsoft IIS.

Verified User

Advisor in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Robust framework but a heavy and expensive one!

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

May 25, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used this Applicational Server on our on-site infrastructure (production environment) and also in our local machines for development and testing purposes.
Although it is definitely a robust and complete framework with lots of options and configurations you can modify at your own needs, it is also a heavy application to run in your computer.
So we'd often deal with slowness in the build and deployment processes, especially with some IDE integrations such as Netbeans or InteliJ.
Even on our local servers, that deployment process was not always super smooth.
To top that up, we dealt with some security breaches raised with some versions of the framework, so we'd need to keep an eye for those security patches at all times (that was the most severe issue we've had).

Pros

Manual deploys works smoothly and quickly
Connection pools configuration it's simple do grasp and has lots of aditional options you can enable
Server management is also easy and quick to do

Cons

Access to logs is quite difficult to grasp, no direct Web access tool to see those
Difficult to install some security patches and even more difficult to figure out what's the problem and the proper solution (support articles are super restricted)
Server deals poorly with deadlock situations, no proper warnings are shown on the admin management application

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need to have complex options in place you can count on Weblogic to be a robust Applicational Server you can rely on.
But you would need to keep an eye on maintaining the framework updated quite frequently to avoid security breaches and subsequent severe situations.
If you don't have other infrastructure for test purposes, I wouldn't advise you on having devs and QA installing this heavy application in their local machines, there are other lightweight solutions that would be a better fit for that.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

The best service from oracle weblogic

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 30, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my experience, Oracle WebLogic is a powerful platform for building various types of applications. We've been using Oracle WebLogic Application Server in our organization for several years now and can say it's a good middleware choice for an enterprise environment. He made extensive use of the capabilities of Weblogic JMS and found exceptional speed and reliability.

Pros

I love that the weblogic dashboard allows you to manage applications and see the status of each application.
Oracle WebLogic Application Server simplifies usage periods in the development and production of business applications.
Oracle WebLogic Server allows me to define various aspects of data source entry, including creating a specific multiple connection to facilitate data entry.
Performance and administration are highlighted in weblogic.

Cons

Sometimes it takes forever to start a server.
I think the price could be more attractive. I think this product is a little more expensive.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Oracle WebLogic Application Server is quite powerful and quite complete. It covers the most important features of the JEE Application Server as well as useful resources related to Oracle. Something efficient for inheritance. Something effective for modern applications. In short: an impressive application server.

Jayden Nishimura

Digital Marketing Director in Marketing at Nintendo (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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robust server with great feature set

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 28, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Oracle Weblogic Application server to deploy both service bus and SOA integration services. We also deploy some Java web and EJB applications on Oracle Weblogic Application servers.

Pros

Data sources.
JMS queues.

Cons

Likelihood to Recommend

The server is very good for deploying Java-based applications. We also build Oracle Service Bus and Service-Oriented Architecture-based synchronous and asynchronous services on top of the standard Weblogic layer. We use the server to create data sources with connection pools and Java Messaging queues which have very good functionality and great control on retry.

Verified User

Employee in Corporate (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

High Performance Server

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Oracle Weblogic is an amazing application server that is being used by some of the departments in the organization. It easily manages all the critical workloads. Currently, we are using more than 4 WebLogic servers with all having different applications. It is used as a middleware for all our web-based applications.

Pros

Load Sharing and Load Balancing
Easy Deployment
Integrated Application console for deployment and other settings

Cons

This requires expensive servers
Training and understanding this is bit hard
Image configuration is very length

Likelihood to Recommend

This is very well suited to be used with web-based applications as it provides immense performance and is a centralized load-sharing solution. If you have multiple applications then this is an appropriate server as it can handle them easily and it is completely flexible and secure. For Images, the configuration part could be a bit hard to handle on this server.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Oracle Weblogic Solutions

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As we are in the Business Intelligence team, we require solutions related to database, management, and delivery. We have used Oracle's WebLogic suite for our customer's development and its solutions. In our day-to-day business, it's needed to have the optimum solution in place to cater to our business requirements. Nowadays Oracle is in demand and we continue to use it.

Pros

Business solutions
Reporting
Management

Cons

Costing

Likelihood to Recommend

For handing large data on a quicker note we recommend using this application solution but if your organization has a smaller dataset and data load is high then you shouldn't go with it. It requires steady data approaches and management. But we have gained benefits from this infrastructure in recent times.

Surbhi Singhal

Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at BOLD (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Great value for the price

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Oracle WebLogic Suite application is being used to simplify the management for our development teams. The really easy lightweight distribution of the IDE (integrated development environment) makes the process of coding happen much faster than using other closely related systems. In general, we use this platform to development much of our backend code.

Pros

Simplified management of development
solid performance and reliability
great bug monitoring capabilities

Cons

The integration stand up time takes a little longer than we anticipated
The automated failover process is a bit slow
The java fight recorder crashes from time to time

Likelihood to Recommend

In general, I would recommend this technology to other companies attempting to install a cohesive integrated development environment for your development department. The cross domain management and comprehensive diagnostic tooling capabilities are really nice. The java mission control and java flight recorder does have a memory buffer that is pretty nice and can be persisted for post incident analysis by the development team.

Scott Kennedy

Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing in Marketing at Franklin Sports (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Weblogic great product

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 21, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are Oracle Forms users so we need to use WebLogic. We have almost one thousand users. We are using for they whole company.

Pros

Robust
Stable
Good performance

Cons

Not easy to install
Administration could be more simple
Complex configuration

Likelihood to Recommend

Excellent performance with many users. Fast and very stable. Suitable for big companies not for small ones.

Gonzalo Segarra

Sub-Gerente de Desarrollo in Information Technology at Hospital Aleman (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Carrier grade application server

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 14, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used as an application server for telecom oss-bss applications. It is also standard application server for custom application. It is the backbone of 100s of telco use cases. Most importantly weblogic users won’t have to struggle with database connection handling, java messaging service, user management and web service throttling.

Pros

Work managers
JMS
User management

Cons

Other application connectivity adaptors
Restart requirement for configuration changes
Analytics

Likelihood to Recommend

Any enterprise when they are not sure about which application server to use when reliability is the most important criteria, then WebLogic is great. When ease of development, constant change and deployment is an important concern then WebLogic is not the best fit.

Pranshu Sharma

Service Fulfillment Domain Manager in Information Technology at Vodafone (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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Robust framework but a heavy and expensive one!

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

May 25, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Manual deploys works smoothly and quickly
Connection pools configuration it's simple do grasp and has lots of aditional options you can enable
Server management is also easy and quick to do

Cons

Access to logs is quite difficult to grasp, no direct Web access tool to see those
Difficult to install some security patches and even more difficult to figure out what's the problem and the proper solution (support articles are super restricted)
Server deals poorly with deadlock situations, no proper warnings are shown on the admin management application

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience